Trade & Industry
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# 37996
[MEUX'S BREWERY CO. LTD.]
[BEER] Meux’s Original London Stout. Established 1764.
… Facsimile of bottle label. [London : Meux’s Brewery Co. Ltd.], [ca. 1910?]. Large chromolithographic poster, 100 x 62 cm, linen-backed and folding to 25 x 15.5 cm (a few minor tears at junctions of folds, otherwise superb); contained in the original royal blue buckram portfolio, 26.2 x 16.7 cm (some light staining). Meux’s Brewery …
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# 38529
BURBERRY
Manteaux Imperméables Costumes et Chapeaux de Sport et de Ville pour Dames et Enfants
Cover: Burberrys. Paris : 8 et 10, Boulevard Malesherbes, [c.1914]. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers with silk ties, pp [48], chiefly full page black-and-white photographic plates with models in the latest women’s winter or autumn fashion; contents in fine condition; a couple of text pages (in French), including a list of Burberry’s female clients belonging to …
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# 37224
JOHN KIMBERLEY & CO. [DISCACIATI, J. L.]
The Bendigo Pottery depot, (Victoria), 1891-93.
Albumen print photograph, 150 x 210 mm, laid down on its original mount of thick card, imprinted in the lower margin ‘John Kimberley & Co., Photographers / Firebrace Street, Horsham’; the print is a little yellowed and has a short crease at upper right edge; the mount has some small stains and is darkened around …
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# 37694
TAYLOR, J. (James)
Benny Roy’s camp, Worturpa. (Aboriginal miner).
[Title from printed caption in lower margin]. [Published ca. 1900; the original photograph may have been taken as early as ca. 1890]. Collotype process print with hand colouring,145 x 225 mm (image), on sheet 270 x 370 mm; lower margin of sheet with imprint of ‘J. Taylor, Collotype, Adelaide, S. A.’ and printed caption in …
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# 37502
Photographer unknown.
Large group of gold miners at Mount Egerton, near Ballarat, circa 1890.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 111 x 166 mm; no photographer’s imprint; verso inscribed in a much later hand: ‘Gold mine pit head, Mount Egerton, 1900-1908, not any later. My grandfather died 1908 and he is in the photo. I believe it is either Whipstick or Princess Regent Mine‘; the print is in very …
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# 37031
BRAND (SYDNEY)
[SYDNEY] W. E. Smith Ltd., inaugural picnic, 30 December 1911, Correy’s Gardens.
[Title from handwritten caption in negative]. Gelatin silver print photograph, 87 x 140 mm, printed on postcard stock, captioned in the negative and with the the studio blind stamp of ‘Brand, 37 Park St.’ at bottom right; verso not inscribed; a very sharp print with much detail, in excellent condition. W. E. Smith Ltd. was …
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# 37333
TAUNTON, Edmund
[GOLD RUSH] The noble ship Manchester in great danger, From continuing the services of a Pilot of the Egyptian Bondage Sea, in lieu of a Pilot of the Service of the Free Emigration Australian Sea.
[Drop-head title:] [Birmingham?] : [s.n.], [1853]. Broadside, folio sheet 430 x 280 mm, with ‘Second edition’ printed above the title at upper right; verso addressed in manuscript to The Right Honorable Viscount Palmerston, MP, Secretary, Home Department, London with the date of 3 November, and with two contemporary postal markings which record that it was sent from Birmingham on …
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# 37340
TERRY, Samuel (1776-1838)
[SYDNEY] Manuscript list of the effects of Third Fleeter Edward Robinson, sold at auction for Samuel Terry by Simeon Lord., January 1821
Two sheets, manuscript in ink to the recto of both, each 245 x 183 mm, wove paper; dated Sydney, 16 January 1821; very good, the second sheet with repair to top edge. Samuel Terry buys up the estate of a Third Fleeter. The present manuscripts are clearly the invoices sent by the auctioneer Simeon Lord regarding the …
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# 32324
COFFEY, HILL & CO. (MELBOURNE)
[GOLD RUSH] Printed circular with price list for foodstuffs, building materials, wines and spirits, tea and coffee, tobacco, wool, hides, gold etc.; mailed to Launceston from Melbourne on the day of issue, 8 August 1853.
Melbourne : Hough & Co., Printers, Elizabeth St., 8 August 1853. Quarto bifolium, 250 x 200 mm, blue wove paper, printed on the first side only and folded for mailing, with manuscript address panel on the last side; sent from Melbourne by Coffey, Hill & Co. to ‘W Johnstone Esq, Launceston’; unframed PAID MELBOURNE AU …
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# 31067
FISKEN & GIBSON, AGENTS; [BARDWELL, William, photographer]
Catalogue of Sir Samuel Wilson’s pure merino ewes and rams to be sold at Ercildoune, on Thursday, October 28, 1880. Sale to commence at one o’clock precisely.
Cover title: Catalogue of the Third Annual Sale of Sir Samuel Wilson’s … … Ballarat, Vic. : James Curtis, printer [for Fisken & Gibson], 1880. Small octavo (170 mm), original limp red morocco covers (a few stains) with gilt-stamped pictorial device and lettering to front, and a second pictorial device to rear; original marbled endpapers, …
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# 37091
[AVIATION] Basil Watson “Official Souvenir / Australian Aerial Mail” picture postcard. Mount Gambier-Melbourne, 15 February, 1917.
Lithographic postcard, 90 x 140 mm; recto with winged propeller above ‘Official Souvenir Australian Aerial Mail‘ and address space, with ‘This card was carried to Melbourne by aeroplane from …‘ on left; verso with vignette portrait of the pilot (“The Aerial Postman”, Basil G. Watson) surmounting a facsimile of his signature, with advertisement for Shell Benzine …
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# 37092
Photographer unknown
Sydney Harbour Bridge under construction, ca. 1930.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 138 x 87 mm, printed on postcard stock; in excellent condition (verso with residual hinges at corners). This photograph, taken looking north across the harbour from Circular Quay, shows a part of the deck being suspended from the newly completed arch during the latter part of 1930. The bridge was officially …
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# 36916
[SYDNEY] Anthony Hordern & Sons’ new building at Brickfield Hill under construction, circa 1905.
[Sydney, NSW : s.n., ca. 1905]. Sepia tone gelatin silver print photograph, 270 x 315 mm (oval format), laid down on its original thick board mount, 350 x 400 mm; fully contemporary inscription in pencil beneath the image: ‘Anthony Hordern’s Brickfield Hill store under construction’; the print is in flawless condition, the mount has some …
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# 36627
R. QUARRILL & CO. [QUARRILL, Reuben, 1828-1904]
[GOLD RUSH] Decorative billhead for the Miner’s Store of John S. Cragg, Wholesale & Retail Ironmonger, 11 Swanston St. South, Melbourne. Dated 12 October 1854.
Melbourne : R. Quarrill & Co., Lithographers, 74 Collins St. West, [1854]. Lithographed billhead, 195 x 240 mm, with vignette view of the premises of John S. Cragg’s Miner’s Store at the Yarra end of Swanston Street; manuscript date of 12 October 1854, with entries recording the sale of a soup tureen and ladle for £1 10/- to …
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# 36307
QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU
Toowoomba and the Darling Downs, Queensland.
Brisbane : A. H. Tucker, Government Printer, [ca. 1948]. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), pictorial wrappers (map to lower wrapper), stapled; pp [16] including wrappers; photographic illustrations, full-page street plan of Toowoomba; a fine copy. Dating from internal reference to population of Warwick as of June, 1947.
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# 35750
BISHOP-OSBORNE, John (1851-1934)
Studio portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis D. Grey, Director of the Tasmanian Main Line Railway Company. Hobart, 1878.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount); recto of mount with fully contemporary caption in ink ‘Colonel Grey’; verso imprinted ‘From the Photographic Studio of J. Bishop Osborne, 76 Murray St., Hobart Town’; in excellent condition. ‘The Tasmanian Main Line Railway was built by a private company formed in 1872. …